Word Meanings - SUFFICIENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy. His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. Boyle. 2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity. A substitute
Additional info about word: SUFFICIENCY
1. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy. His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. Boyle. 2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity. A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. Shak. I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others. Eikon Basilike. 3. Adequate substance or means; competence. "An elegant sufficiency." Thomson. 4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund. 5. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency. Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. Sir W. Temple.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUFFICIENCY)
- Abundance
- Plenty
- largeness
- copiousness
- sufficiency
- plentitude
- exuberance
- ampleness
- profusion
- luxuriance
- wealth
- Competence
- Power
- adequacy
- ability
- Mediocrity
- Mean
- commonplace
- medium
- average
Related words: (words related to SUFFICIENCY)
- ABILITY
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - AVERAGE
That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: A tariff or duty on goods, etc. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped. - AMPLENESS
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. - ABUNDANCE
An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been - WEALTHINESS
The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence. - WEALTHFUL
Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv. - PROFUSION
1. The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe. 2. Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities. Addison. - PLENTY
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty." - COMMONPLACE
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. - COPIOUSNESS
The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden. Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance. - MEDIOCRITY
1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." Bacon. 2. Moderation; temperance. Hooker. - POWERLESS
Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n. - WEALTHILY
In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak. - COMMONPLACENESS
The quality of being commonplace; commonness. - COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY
1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. To make them act zealously is not in the - MEDIUM
See PAPER (more info) 1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride - EXUBERANCE
The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage. Syn. -- Abundance; superabundance; excess; plenty; copiousness; - POWER
See FISH - ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - AMENABILITY
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. - SUITABILITY
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - EQUABILITY
The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray. - COMMENSURABILITY
The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne. - DEFLAGRABILITY
The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle. - IMMEABILITY
Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot. - INEVITABILITY
Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford. - EFFUMABILITY
The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - TAMABILITY
The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness. - INSOCIABILITY
The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - INSURMOUNTABILITY
The state or quality of being insurmountable. - REPEALABILITY
The quality or state of being repealable. - INHERITABILITY
The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson. - MUTABILITY
The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world